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Complain in sentence

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This is the case even for foreign investment – an issue about which both US and European companies complain.
The world will have changed once the global economic crisis is over, and the Europeans will not be able to complain about it then.
Deficiencies in any of these basic areas are usually the first thing investors complain about, which reflects how important they are.
Cut your own interest rates, they must have thought to themselves, and you will have less to complain about.
The German Leadership QuestionFRANKFURT – Many in the eurozone’s crisis countries complain that the source of their suffering is a rigid economic-austerity regime – including reductions in wages and pensions, tax increases, and soaring unemployment – imposed on them by Germany.
The more strident complain of "de-industrialization."
In fact, many complain that it slows them down.
“Aaagh,” I thought, “if only I had a double mastectomy: I could cancel all these things and no one would complain!”
Businesses in oligopolistic sectors often complain about the burden of compliance; but they clearly rely on regulation as a barrier to market entry by new competitors.
Children, of course, are unlikely to organize or complain to authorities when they are overworked and underpaid.
When I lose my job because my competitor innovates and introduces a better product, I have little cause to complain.
They had good reasons to complain.
Libyans complain that they have not been paid their monthly salaries.
And, even on foreign policy, Obama’s critics complain that he has failed to implement the transformational initiatives that he promised four years ago.
These voters also complain about crime, and of the deteriorating quality of life in their cities.
Like current Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at Davos this year, Baker could complain that his comments were taken out of context.
Higher-level leaders may have taken up the case against Karma – persuading their counterparts in Xinjiang to resurrect the old antiques case – because he had used his connections in Beijing to complain about the treatment of his brothers by officials in Tibet.
But some organizations campaigning against trafficking understand that when sex work is illegal, it is much riskier for sex workers to complain to the authorities when they are enslaved, beaten, or cheated.
The government insists on a January 2008 deadline, but the companies complain that the government’s reluctance to fund its share of operating costs fully and rising political violence in the Niger Delta make this deadline unrealistic, and want it extended three years.
They complain about poverty, crime, disease, violence, and lack of economic opportunity?
If so, Brexit could go ahead on whatever terms May negotiates, and nobody could complain about the consequences or costs.
Defenders of America’s inequality argue that the poor and those in the middle shouldn’t complain.
Silicon Valley companies do not complain of a dearth of talented managers.
Some complain that inflation remains below the 2% target; but the combination of low unemployment and low inflation used to be viewed as macroeconomic Nirvana.
And many Chinese, for whom the EU is just one of more than 70 strategic partners, complain that the EU’s policy toward China is more commercial than strategic.
Some insist that refugees take jobs from natives, which implies that refugees are hard workers; others complain that refugees rely on welfare benefits, which suggests that they work too little.
Firms complain not only about the direct cost, but also about the complexity and the uncertainty introduced by such regulation.
Some observers also complain about the divisive negative rhetoric and advertising that characterized the campaign.
The Chinese, for their part, complain about foreign trade practices and are taking some cases (for example, a long-running dispute with the European Union over solar panels) to the WTO, where cases brought against China by other countries are proliferating.
American troops, they complain, are on the ground in the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Kyrgizstan, Tadjikistan, and Uzbelistan.
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